Tuesday, 26 July 2022

Top Ten Tuesday: Books from past seasonal TBRs I still haven't read

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's theme is books from my past seasonal TBR posts I STILL haven’t read.

 

I'm just starting to get back into blogging after a few years away from it, so I haven't made a seasonal TBR post since 2017 (not counting my summer 2022 list). However, despite this I've managed to compile a list of titles that are still on my TBR. (I've excluded books which I abandoned or no longer want to read, so these are all books that I plan to get to some day.)

1. A Woman's Place by Lynn Austin (Spring 2016)

2. Home by Marilynne Robinson (Spring 2016)

3. Lark Rise to Candleford (Spring 2016)

4. The Brontë Plot by Katherine Reay (Autumn 2016)

5. Five Magic Spindles by various authors (Autumn 2016)

6. Once by various authors (Spring 2017)

7. The Sound of Diamonds by Rachelle Rea (Spring 2017)

8. The Oxford Inklings by Colin Duriez (Spring 2017)

 

To get to 10, I'm also including my list of books I'm looking forward to reading in 2017.

9. Sylvia's Lovers by Elizabeth Gaskell (2017)

10. The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge (2017)

Monday, 18 July 2022

Top Ten Tuesday: Authors I'd Like to Try

This week's Top Ten Tuesday is a freebie. I wasn't feeling inspired to come up with my own topic so decided to go with a previous one which I haven't done yet. Here are ten authors I haven't read, but am interested in reading. Let me know if there's a favourite author of yours you think I should read, and which book I should start with!



Ngaio Marsh
Known as one of the four Queens of Crime alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and Margery Allingham. I'm a big fan of Sayers and Christie, and of classic crime fiction generally, so Marsh is pretty high on my list to try.

Moray Dalton
Another classic crime author I've heard good things about, and some of her books have fairly recently been republished by Dean Street Press, so they are easy to get hold of.

K. J. Parker
I've come across her books at the library and thought they looked interesting, but I've yet to try reading one.

C. S. Harris
She is the author of a historical mystery series set in Regency England, which sounds interesting.

Edward Marston
Another mystery author I'm interested in.

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
I'd like to read more classics from other cultures and I've heard good things about The Makioka Sisters, so I'd like to read it at some point.

Mary Renault
Amor Towles
Tove Jansson
E. M. Delafield
Some other authors I've generally heard good things about or am interested in reading.